Johann: Atma thinks it's always the first sunday in June with is used to remind people at large to reflect on the goodness of ones father(s) and to use the day for honor and veneration. May all take this opputunity well and if still alive, of which is not for sure, still possible to personal approach, such is a blessing and not good if not used. Mudita

Johann: [continue] ...kāma-guṇa (sensual giving) , death, alive, increasing the cemeteries in the world. This is why just giving toward the virtuous, those with metta, bears fruits beyond the common, as it's not for further kāma-guṇa that they would use it for, but as base for lessons, for purificatio

Johann: If one would know or remembering the suffering behind pleasing form, sound, smell, taste, touch, one certain would no more desire after it. But because lof lack of remembering and proper attention, beings go after it, take birth, age, get sick, seperated, die, again and again, keeping the flame of k

Johann: If ones sacrifices, generosity, isn't protected by a good closed tank, less fruits can be expected. And what is the tank made of? Saddha, Pasada, metta, Sila, intention for own and others independency.

Johann: Nothing more a blessing as to do not cling to a specific Nikaya, since one can easy take the opportunity of doing theUposatha often two days a new. May all always make the best of given possibilities.

Depabhasadhamma: I am in need of assistance. I am writing a paper about the Three Marks of Existence. I understand the three marks, however, I am befuddled by the meaning and use of the word "existence." Is this English word the translation of the Pali word thiti? Does the word "existence" imply life, living, consci

Johann: Temporary ordination is pretty normal, 3 days, a month, a Vassa... and not to forget that the Buddha promised union with the Asparas, which are beyond being compareable to others...

2020 May 09 19:25:54

Moritz: No no, I really prefer to be a householder, even though not having a house at the moment. I am not much inclined towards nekkhamma... ... even though already doing some nekkhamma now, but not hoping to do so for the long term....

I invite you sincerely to participate in invitation actions with and for Sangham.net.

Dhamma – Vinaya culture but also every other traditional culture – if we look more deeply inside of it – is a culture of invitation, of conscious Giving and also conscious accepting or rejecting.

Of course all who come across this platform are with the reading of the invitations already invited and our doors are open also if there are no spezial personly invitations but there are institutions and persons, who are able to react only if they are approacht directly. Liking or not liking – to accept the invitation - does not matter on this level and can be just assumed or in best case be told by third persons, if they are not secure delivered. And this is also the reason why invitations should be made official and loud, so that there is no assuming necessary and also no ground for rumor. Everybody would have clearance and it will be possible to see and know by everybody. So there is special field for background tactics and unpublished politics.

This has the use to maintain and foster bigger communities but also to depower background friction and give all participator (inwardly and outwardly) a frame with tension release where participators are feeling neither excluded nor constricted.

Invitations can be made representative from every single person who participates here (in what kind ever) but can also be made just personal (das ist alles Pattanumodana). This is very appreciated and gratidudely supported. Sometimes easier - as one does not need to carry the whole liability exclusively and also has the support of hints and helps of other – is it to speak out an invitation collectively. It also has more effectively and problems which could arise with it can be better considered.

Everybody is free to suggest such an invitation and with it he/she gets the possibility to get some official supports or refusals (of course it is wished to get reasons for it). Also in regard of whom to address and in questions of formality, we are able to support each other.

As recommendation maybe worthy to say: It is good and proper to address an invitation always to the highest organ of a group and after (if it is needed) that following the ranking upwardly (if it is visible). In this way one can be surer to do not cross over somebody.

It is of course possible that a leading group is blocking such a connection and invitation (what ever reason it may have). If the way has been taken in the right direction, one is – if he/she wishes so – able to begin to address from down upwardly and in that way reaching the reading group later on as well.

In regard of invitations of Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis, is it for sure mostly differently to handle, as there exist different views of hierarchies. It is imported to discriminate between the invitation to the worldly leadership of a monastery (normally a organization of private person) or the leader of a certain Bhikkhu or Bhikkhuni group (Sangha) in the way one approaches.

In reagrd of a invitation to participate as a visiting, teaching or advising monastic, it is maybe better to adress single Bhikkhus or Bhikkhunis and to invite them for this or that action (take care that it does not produce discomfort or problems for them – also the arrival and departure should be managed – and in for this case it might be needed to involve the monastic attendants as well)

To come back to the general meaning of the issue once again: It is very important to take a personal position in relation to a group or a single person (in regard of their actions) open-minded and conscious and to carry also their actions (in this case the invitations) and accept or disagree with them (if one declares such things public or not is another case and needs to be decided in any certain case for one self). Both has its effects but also to ignore it and let it run has its effects as we have influences within of all our relations in regard of skillful and unskillful tendencies. All this has also its more or lesser subtile impacts of the single person.

A good frame - which knows how to handle such natural laws - is the Vinaya, and even if we might be not able to take it as a whole yet, we are able to adopt certain proceedings as soon as we understand their meaning as well.

One rule (which has its good reason) is for example, to do not leave the assembling without reason or to run away from decisions without a reason. That does not mean, that one needs to carry things automatically, but to accept or reject them conscious.

Of coures it is also possible to reject the gift of particiating in an invitation prossedure as well. How you arrange this for your self, is your personal thing and the sentences here give also for this some explaining and support.

What you are not involved in any case is in any juristic commitments, as all actions here are actions of individual persons and there is no legal body in sangham.net and from a normal worldy (juristic) view you are in no responsible relation with something that does not exist.

To understand that a little bit better: This forum is a private park or like a saloon. You as a single person are of course subject to the laws of the land even the park is owned by a certain person and also the person who owns the park is subject to the laws of the land. With the visit of the park you act – form a juristic view – just for your own person but in regard of relations (and in karmic or psychological views) has the visit of a certain park and the association with certain people its impact (beneficial or disprofit in regard of your aims, what ever it might be) and you will take absorb some amount of its smell - so to speak – which can be a good or a bad one and the more you dwell and involve there, the more you will absorb the smell of the place and its people and represent this groupe, this park (may it be conscious or unconscious). But there is no need to worry. People, who understand that, will not take your small as measure but will oriented on your kind of acting. People who don’t know this natural law will simply follow the smell which they prefer.

If you have the feeling that a certain park or a certain group has a good small und acts good (kusala), it is more then beneficial to invite also people of whom you think that they have a good small or are able to adopt it and let them participate in this park and in this group. With it you take care of that and you will be also careful to keep this space comfortable and wholesome or even make it smelling better in addition.If people are conscious about that, they are only able to push each other in a better direction and forward and one takes care of one self but also on others and the environment.

This Invitation here comes from a certain visitor of this park and he is also happy if he will be informed if something is waggle or unfavorable: “Hey, there is some dirt and dust. In that case I will not enter.”, or he/she enters in advanced and sweeps the dust simply away and shows in that way gratitude as he/she keeps the park clean in the spectrum of his objectivity.It is no invitation into a wellness saloon and also no invitation in an all-included-club but more a invitation to participate on a working field, a field for meritorious actions and to saw the seeds, to nourish with fertilizer and to grow the fruits this field was been prepared a little in advanced.

Invitations are always just possibilities and can be ignored, accepted or reject and that is the action (in thoughts, words and physical actions) one is responsible for as soon one receives it.

Thanks for careful read, your care and patient.

Please feel also here invited to take position, to rebuke, share some hints or acceptance. You are able to make that simply mental, with specific words or with the vote possibilities on the top anonymously.

(the voting stays open and in this way everybody is able to get a present general impressions of the current situation in any certain case before taking action)